A selection of my creative work:
Scripts
I’m currently developing a feature film and two original television series. Following are examples of some of my scripts with competition success.
Air
- Winner 2024 Fan Fiction Film and Writing Festival
- A spec script for the tv show Firefly written to demonstrate my ability to write a tv episode in the voice of series I didn’t create.
- When the crew of Firefly are infected with a mysterious and deadly airborne virus with dark links to River’s past, Simon must choose between saving the crew and saving his sister.
- Interview about the script by Wildsounds Podcast
- Read the script
Theme Park Earth
- An original tv concept and pilot in development
- 2022 Bluecat Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalist Pilot
- A disparate group of strangers discover themselves trapped in a human zoo on an alien planet.
Object of His Affection
- 2017 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Semi-finalist for Short Film
- An obsessed widower has one thing to do before he dies – create a sculpture of his dead wife. But things tend to break when you hold on too tight.
Film Making
Short Film
2021 Cuddle Bubble
Writer, Director, Producer
2019 Animal House
Writer, Director
2018 The Box
Writer, Director, Producer
2017 The Muse
Writer, Director
Other Film
2017 Finding the Truth
Producer
Interview
2020 Aliens on Film
Producer, Narrator
Mini Documentary
Additional Credits
- 2024 Purple Socks (short) – 3rdAD
- 2024 The Sight of Sound (short) – Runner and Extra
- 2021 Pencil Music (art film) – Camera and Production Assistant
- 2020 Trust Frank (short) – Production Assistant
Prose
Although I love screenwriting, prose is where my heart is. Novels, short stories and flash fiction.
It’s where I can spend time playing with words and worlds and characters. It’s probably why I’ve published so little – I find hard to let my prose creations go.
Following are a few short stories I have set free. I’m also currently working a draft of a novel called “A Forest Grew”.
Goodbye Stranger
- 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing Winner Local Short Story
- Click the image to listen to an excerpt read by actor Dennis Coard
- Download the anthology to read Goodbye Stranger and the other award winners
- Or read Goodby Stranger and my interview in the Warrandyte Diary
Jake
- 2012 Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Short Fiction Award Highly Commended
- Purchase E-book: The Seven Deadly Sins and other award-winning stories from the Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Short Fiction Award
Tooth
- e-Ravings | Returns, Issue 1 May 2014
Poetry
The Rabbit and the Beast
Second Prize 2012 Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
‘You are the last,’ said the rabbit.
‘Alone?’ asked the beast.
‘You wore the wrong costume to the party,
it reminds them of an ancient foe.’
‘But it is my skin,’ said the beast,
‘I cannot take it off.’
‘They will take it,’ said the rabbit,
‘and freeze your blood when you die.’
Published on a postcard with the artwork “How to Explain Genetics to a Thylacine”, which inspired the poem.
Lake Air From The Air
Winner of the 2015 Environment in Focus Photo Competition and Exhibition. I took this photograph using a digital SLR from a light plane above Lake Eyre when there was only a small amount of water creating stunning salt gradients.